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“Same Same but Different”: project on educational equality
The project “Same Same but Different” deals with educational equality in the context of universities. Its aim is to bring together different scientific discourses concerning educational equality in an interdisciplinary fashion. As a result a transfer concept, which can be used as basis for further scientific discourse regarding educational equality, shall be developed. With effect from 1 October 2011 the Ministry for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia sponsors the project “Same Same but Different” with a runtime of three months.
BMBF sponsors “IGaDtools4MINT”
Since February 2011, the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) sponsors the project „IGaDtools4MINT“. The project aims at increasing the number of female first year students of computer science and is supposed to have a positive impact on the share of further underrepresented groups of students (e.g. students with migration or non-academic family background).
IGaDtools4MINT is a cooperative project of the chair for Gender and Diversity Management in Engineering at TU Berlin, of theComputer Science Department I9 and the staff unit Integration Team - Human Resources, Gender and Diversity Management (IGaD) at RWTH Aachen University as well as theDepartment of Telecommunication Systems at TU Berlin. For further informtation visit the project website of IGaDtools4MINT.
New TANDEMkids coordinator
Since February 2011, Nathalie Tulodetzki is the new coordinator of the mentoring programme TANDEMkids.
„I'm looking forward to this new task and the organisation of exciting visits of RWTH insitutes and workshops for all participants. If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.“
Publication “Going Diverse”
The publication of the international mentoring program TANDEMplusIDEA has been published. „Going Diverse. Innovative Answers to Future Challenges: Gender and Diversity Perspectives in Science, Technology and Business“ edited by Carmen Leicht-Scholten, Elke Breuer, Nathalie Tulodetzki und Andrea Wolffram has been published by Budrich UniPress-Verlag. For further information please visit the website ofBudrich UniPress-Verlags.
First TANDEMplus networking event: DFG Secretary General Dorothee Dzwonnek speaks about her professional career
On 21 January 2011, Forschungszentrum Jülich invited the mentees of the mentoring programme TANDEMplus to their first networking event. During a guided tour, the mentees were able to get an overview of the Forschungszentrum and get exclusive insights into it's fields of work.
The highlight of the event was the dinner speech delivered by Dorothee Dzwonnek, Secretary General of the German Research Foundation. In an informal atmosphere, Ms Dzwonnek described the most important steps of her career and shared her experiences with the mentees. She said that a new job is always a challenge. But each challenge allows for the personality to grow as well as the trust in someone's potential. It is important to take much pleasure in what you do. By looking back at her career she gave the mentees the advice: "If there is a chance, seize it!" Ms Dzwonnek's description of her career steps and the challenges of a leading position were taken on in the following discussion.
New Year’s Reception for international scientists
On 21 January 2011, on behalf of the Rector of RWTH Aachen University, the International Office invited the University's international researchers and doctoral candidates to a New Year's Reception. The IGaD presented its fields of work at an information stand. Stefanie Schlößer and Gitta Doebert delivered the scientists insights into the staff unit’s activities regarding gender and diversity issues and informed about the existing mentoring programmes.
Excellent interim result of the “audit family friendly university”
The berufundfamilie gGmbH certificates an outstanding development towards a family friendly university. In the course of the certification an enhancement of an equilibrated work life balance has been agreed upon by RWTH Aachen and the berufundfamilie gGmbH. A specific focus lies on the improvement of the reconciliation of work/study and family life. The interim result of the implementation showed that the majority of the planned activities for the timeframe of 2009-2012 have either already started or have been successfully completed.
For further information please contact Manuela Aye.
Dr. Carmen Leicht-Scholten has been offered the visiting professorship “Gender and Diversity Management in Engineering” by the TU Berlin
With effect from 1st of July 2010 Dr. phil. Carmen Leicht-Scholten, the head of the scientific unit Integration Team Human Resources – Gender and Diversity Management was assigned a visiting professorship for the subject of “Gender and Diversity Management in Engineering”, located at the Department of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science at faculty IV of TU Berlin. For the time of the leave of absence the rector of RWTH Aachen has transferred the executive office of the IGaD to Dr. Wolffram. The scientific supervision of the research projects remains in the hands of Prof. Leicht-Scholten who will be closely-linked to the gender and diversity strategy of the RWTH Aachen.
Report on Carmen Leicht-Scholten and the mentoring programme TANDEMplusIDEA in Journal ”Projects“
In February 2010 the Journal ”Projects“ published an article on the situation of female scientists in natural sciences and engineering as well as on the concept, goals and successes of the programme TANDEMplusIDEA. For this article Carmen Leicht-Scholten had been interviewed. Projects Journal is edited by British Publishers and reports on selected EU projects. It is targeted towards a broad audience from research, policy and industry.
Read the full article on the website of the journal.
Final conference of the EU project TANDEMplusIDEA
On 29-30 October 2009 the final conference of the EU project TANDEMplusIDEA took place at Eurogress Aachen. Under the title “Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges – International Conference on Gender and Diversity in Science, Technology and Business” 170 participants from academia, companies and international organisations met to discuss gender and diversity management in human resources and organisational development. As the project coordinator of TANDEMplusIDEA, IGaD was responsible for the organisation of the conference. Besides the two-day conference programme with internationally renowned key note speakers and 30 further presentations, there was a framework programme including a reception at Aachen City Hall, a city tour and the opportunity for a joint dinner.
More information: http://www.idealeague.org/tandemplus/conference.
RWTH Aachen is family friendly university
RWTH Aachen has acquired the certificate of the “audit family friendly university”. The seal appreciates the family friendly arrangement of the work- and study terms at universities. Good basic conditions for the compatibility of studies and parenthood and sustainable strategies of a family- conscious personal policy within the university allow for a family-conscious organization culture. The certification, which was attended by the staff unit “Integration Team – Human Resources, Gender and Diversity Management (IGaD)“, includes the inspection of already existing family friendly offers as well as the arrangement and planning of new goals and means in terms of a concerted Work Life Balance.
Further information here.
Post-doc-qualification programme for female scientists at RWTH Aachen
Within the framework of a “post-doc-qualification program” at RWTH Aachen each faculty is receiving funds for half a TVL E13 position for 36 months, to assign it to a qualified female junior scientist and to affiliate the position at an adequate professorship within the respective faculty. These post doctoral lecture qualifications and respectively qualification scholarships support exceedingly qualified female junior scientists on their career path at RWTH Aachen. The IGaD has developed a concept for the allocation of this half position as research fellowship for female junior scientists with PhD, which is oriented on the guidelines of the DFG for the allocation of research fellowships. This programme is financed through funds of the Excellence Initiative of RWTH Aachen. Because of a complementary funding concept there will be a narrow time frame, and applications for fellowships must be handed in until June 1 2009.
Additional information: information for candidates and personal record (only in German).
MINT-pupil-university 2009 at RWTH Aachen
During the summer holiday, RWTH Aachen is organizing pupil-universities within the framework of the MINT cooperation program of the Excellence Initiative between July 6 and July 10 and between August 10 and August 14. There will be propositions from 11 different MINT-subjects. The participants will be getting an insight into the selected subject for a week. This proposal is aimed at pupils from grade 10 ascending (certain subjects from grade 11). More details about the proceedings as well as registration (from 01-14.06) you find at http://www.schueler-uni.rwth-aachen.de/.
RWTH Aachen signed charter of diversity
The ”charter of diversity“ is a basic commitment to fairness and appreciation of people in organizations. Through the signing the organizations obligate to establish an open business culture based on integration and mutual respect. The “charter of diversity” is an initiative of the commissioner of integration of the Federal Government Maria Böhmer, under the patronage of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, to promote equal opportunities and diversity in organizations.
With the People Policy, which was formulated in the future concept, the RWTH Aachen has already committed itself to a coherent personnel- and organizational development regarding the integration of Gender- and Diversity- aspects in teachings, research and administration. The signing of the charter through the RWTH Aachen is another step to advance the themes of equal opportunities and diversity as basic operation policy at the RWTH Aachen on all levels of decision.
Further information here (only in German).
Report of the mentoring programme TANDEMmed in the university radio
The university radio Aachen reports in the episode “the morning after” about the new cycle of the mentoring programme TANDEMmed. In the focus is the curricular anchoring of the programme in the medical model study course.
The report can be listened to here (only in German).
Interview about the Mint winter school in the university radio Aachen
On march 18th Gehrt Hartjen, in his function as coordinator of the MINT- cooperation program, gave an interview in the live programme of the university radio Aachen. The recording of the interview can be listened to here (only in German).
Mentoring programme TANDEM - Call for Participants
The mentoring programme TANDEM of RWTH Aachen addresses engaged and ambitious female graduate students, PhD-students and young scientists from various scientific backgrounds (except medicine). The main objectives of the programme are the support of career planning as well as the development of specific potentials and skills.
The application period for the summer semester 2009 ends on May 7, 2009.
Further information on the programme and application procedures can be found here.
Call for Papers for TANDEMplusIDEA-Conference "Going Diverse 2009" published
In the framework of the EU project TANDEMplusIDEA, RWTH Aachen University organises an international conference on the topic: "Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges – International Conference on Gender and Diversity in Science, Technology and Business". It will take place on 29-30 October 2009 at RWTH Aachen University and is hosted in cooperation with the IDEA League partners Imperial College London, ETH Zürich and TU Delft.
"Going Diverse 2009" will deal with the different aspects of gender and diversity in technology, science and business. In particular, it will focus on instruments of a gender and diversity-oriented human resources development, as well as on the institutionalisation of gender and diversity management and the accompanying processes of organisational development and cultural change. Proposals for contributions of lectures, workshops or poster presentations can be submitted until 28 February 2009.
Read the detailed Call for Papers here.
More information can be found on the conference website www.idealeague.org/tandemplus/conference.
Mentoring programme TANDEMplusIDEA in European Commission brochure
The project TANDEMplusIDEA is presented as a highlight of the year 2008 in the brochure ”Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities - Science in Society 2008“ of the European Commission (page 77). Read the article in the brochure.
New Publication
In the recent published article Dr. Carmen Leicht-Scholten presents the results of a comparative analysis of different mentoring programmes The analysed mentoring programmes serve all the purpose to increase the number of women who are pursuing a scientific career. The article "Where is the Key to Success? A Comparative Evaluation of Mentoring Programmes for Outstanding Female Scientists in Natural Science, Engineering, Social Sciences and Medicine." published in: Grenz, Sabine/ Kortendiek, Beate/ Marianne, Kriszio/ Löther, Andrea (Ed.) (2008): Gender Equality Programmes in Higher Education. International Perspectives. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; p. 163-178. Further information on the publication here.
Equality Concept Successful
The equality concept of RWTH Aachen has recently been awarded by a nationwide expert committee in the framework of the “Female Professorship Programme” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The concept, which was developed by the Integration Team and approved by the Rectorate, comprises target agreements on the basis of a balanced score card. These objectives make it possible to establish equal and sustainable structures at the university. For the first round of the programme 113 universities applied altogether, of which 79 were evaluated positively. RWTH Aachen can now receive up to 450.000 Euro p.a. over the next five years. For further information please click here (German press release).